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Creating Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems That Provide Useful Information Webinar Series
This four-part webinar series is designed to help leaders maximize the potential of their education-based data systems.
Charter School Authorizer Practices and Evaluations in Florida: A Report Funded by the MIT Blueprint Charter Research Collaborative
This WestEd report examines whether Florida’s charter school application evaluation instrument predicts long-term school outcomes, finding stronger links to closure risk than accountability performance.
Evaluation of Outcomes Based Contracting (OBC): Final Report
This WestEd evaluation of Outcomes Based Contracting across eight early-adopter districts examines its impact, implementation, and drivers of success.
What Is The Statewide BHSSA Evaluation?
This WestEd resource explains the statewide BHSSA evaluation, a multi-year study assessing how California’s school behavioral health investments are strengthening student wellness systems across county and local education agency partnerships.
Youth Reimagining School Behavioral Health Systems
This WestEd resource describes the Youth Engagement Cohort model, a student-centered process in which young people examine data, share perspectives, and present recommendations to shape California’s school behavioral health systems under the BHSSA.
Making Dual Enrollment Work: Solving the Access–Success Paradox With OUSD’s Point Person Model
This report examines how Oakland Unified School District’s dual enrollment point person model operates, what infrastructure it requires, and what it reveals about making open-access dual enrollment work.
What Educational Research Looked Like When Scores Were Rising: A Comparative Analysis of AERA Conference Programs, 2005–2014 and 2022–2025
A research brief that responds to a widely covered critique claiming educational research has become disconnected from classroom realities. Using an analysis of AERA conference programs across two distinct eras, the paper argues that, contrary to the critique, research addressing teacher-identified concerns has largely increased over time, not decreased.
Launching a Network for Researchers and Practitioners to Tackle Challenges Together
Learn about WestEd’s Research–Practice Partnership Network and explore how long-term partnerships enable interest holders to cocreate evidence-based responses to real-world challenges.
Supporting Student Success Through Aligned and Coherent Systems
Learn how state and local agencies can align policies and partnerships to create coherent, collaborative systems that improve supports for students and families.
Building a Brighter Future: WestEd Resource Collection for Thriving Learners, Empowered Communities
Explore a curated collection of research-based resources and insightful blog articles from WestEd designed to help educators and school systems improve outcomes for students, teachers, families, and communities.
